It's here!!! (and so tiny)

[Fuzzball79]

I finally got my GBB sling today and although it's half the size it was described as when I ordered it (only about 1.5cm) it's sooo pretty. It's already started webbing.

 

[novakdesigns]

Cute

 

[Martin Oosthuysen]

That is just awesome, we have a female and a sling I'm hoping will be male. They are hardy,and ferocious eaters. Their substrate can be dry(they are a desert type tarantula),maybe add a tiny water bottle cap with pebbles so it has a water source but can't drown due to the pebbles.

 

[Fuzzball79]

That is just awesome, we have a female and a sling I'm hoping will be male. They are hardy,and ferocious eaters. Their substrate can be dry(they are a desert type tarantula),maybe add a tiny water bottle cap with pebbles so it has a water source but can't drown due to the pebbles.

Thanks. I'm afraid, a bottle cap is too big even with pebbles in it it's that tiny, lol. I'll have a look anyway if I can find a tiny one. In the caresheet it says to lightly mist once a week, but only for spiderlings (too much moisture is harmful to adults, isn't it?) other than that they'll get enough moisture through food. I'm not looking forward to having to cut up mini mealworms again, but I hate pinhead crickets and fruitflies as they're too hard to catch.

 

[Martin Oosthuysen]

Haha,okay best option is pinheads if you can't get tiny roaches. As for the specimen,they hate when substrate is wet that's why I've used a bottle cap with my slings. Hope you enjoy your baby a lot,and post updates here if possible.

 

[Anthony York]

I have a 1in. water dish for mine but I use a syringe to put about 3 drops of water in it and that seems to work well no pebble need and no risk of it drowning

 

[Fuzzball79]

I went through my husbands baking cupboard and found a tiny bottle lid of an out of date icing glue, which I boil washed. It's only about 1cm across but I still put small pebbles in it. It took to its little bottle lid cave and is being left alone to settle in.
I think my B. Boehmei sling is going into molt soon, as I saw it carrying dirt around last night. It always seems to do this when I get a new spider, lol.

 

[Anthony York]

Yeah so far mine have molted almost a month after I get them

 

[philflake]

Congratulations! Cute little one!

 

[hellknite]

Sometimes we get surprised about the T sizes as it differs from the description and the actual size.. but bottom line is, no matter what the size is, we still get happy everytime a new T arrives..

 

[philflake]

That is so true! I was like a kid on Christmas day when my 2 arrived today!

 

[Fuzzball79]

It's eaten! I offered it half a mini meal worm last night, which it completely ignored, so today I took the smallest cricket I had (from my other sling's feeder tub), disabled it a little bit so it couldn't jump around too much and sat it in the web. The little one pounced it like a pro and has nearly finished it already, bearing in mind the cricket was only a little smaller than the sling.
It seems to prefer live to dead and is able to handle it, too, so I'm really happy.

 

[Fuzzball79]

The baby eating its cricket upside down, as you do, lol: